Cake Decorating Tutorials

Transcript So, from this point, go crazy and do what you like. Don’t go too crazy, but go a little crazy, because it’s fun. I’m going to take some of my yellow, and don’t get it on your dress because that’s not cute. And you can see it comes right out the side. This is …

Transcript So now my cake is ready to go. What I’m going to do with this is just start with my border. I’m going to do little shells kind of all the way around. To do that, let’s even start on the bottom, I’m going to push away from me, and pull. You can see …

Transcript Hi. My name is Katie Rosenhouse. I’m a pastry chef and culinary consultant living in New York City. I started out about eight years ago at the French Culinary Institute in New York City and since then I’ve worked at pretty great fine dining restaurants, from Bouley, Le Cirque, The Russian Tea Room, Country, …

Transcript All I’m going to do is, you can either take a little bit of water, just to help it stick, or a little bit of frosting. Just make sure all of the dust is off of it. I’m going to use a little water and just give it a flip, just lightly and that’s …

Transcript So today I’m going to show you a really great way to decorate a simple but beautiful kid’s birthday cake. So you can see I’m just starting with just a nice clean, white surface with my buttercream. This is a two layer cake. I have my same buttercream in the middle, I did a …

Transcript But our chocolate ganache cake, I have some options. A really classic idea is to take these chocolate curls that I’ve made, and you can see they’ve just come off of my cooled sheet tray. They’re kind of ready to go. And I can just take these if I want to and just pile …

Transcript So my white chocolate is chilled, it’s nice and firm to the touch and all I’m going to do is flip them over and immediately you can see that the chocolate just peels right off. It’s really fun and I have my very cute little decorations ready to go. Here I have a couple …

Transcript So here I have a heart shaped cake and I’m just going to use this as an example of how to use fresh flowers as decorations for a cake. And all I’m going to do is take some pink frosting just to prepare it. And just very, kind of, not worrying about it too …

Transcript Hi I’m Katie and I’m so excited because today I’m making a Christmas cake which happens to be my favorite holiday in the universe. But you can see I started out by; I did a fondant layer on top of my cake. This is just some carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, but you …

Transcript So, I have two beautiful cakes and I have my chocolate decorations that I’ve already started. I tempered my chocolate. Spread it onto transfer sheets. Drizzled it onto an acetate sheet and spread it onto a cold sheet tray to make these beautiful curls. And now I’m going to finish my cakes. So, for …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie, and today I’m going to show you how to decorate a cake with candy. This is just a fun job for anyone. All I’ve done is I’ve put a base layer of butter cream over my cake, and you can see just for kind of whimsy I made a big swirl …

Transcript Hi. So I’m here to show you today how to decorate a cake with sprinkles. It’s a very simple idea. All I’m doing is taking my cake that’s already been prepared with a layer of buttercream, and you can you can see just with my offset spatula, I just made little swooshes along the …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie, and I’m going to show you today how to decorate a very cute little chocolate heart shaped cake. I’m starting with my cake that’s already baked. I just have one layer. You could do multi-layered if you like. And I have some chocolate frosting. Depending on what occasion you’re making this …

Transcript To build my cake, you can see I’ve already covered my cake with either whipped cream, buttercream, whatever you like. Whipped cream is really nice for the summer. A vanilla cake, whipped cream, and fresh fruit, beautiful and delicious. I did a border, that’s optional. I just used my star tip to pipe a …

Transcript So I’m going to go to the fridge and get my sheet tray that I put in there so it would get nice and cold. To make chocolate curls or chocolate cigarettes I have a cookie sheet or a brownie pan that I’ve let sit either in the refrigerator or the freezer just until …

Transcript So, I’m here with bowl of white chocolate. And you can see I’ve set it over a double boiler. What I’m about to do is temper the white chocolate and I’m going to use that as decorations for my cakes. So, you can see all of my chips are in the bowl. And I …

Transcript My next one is a chrysanthemum. So, what I’m going to do is start on the outside and just push my yellow frosting. This is just a nice round tip. Just let it come right out. I’m just making little spikes all the way around. And then I’m going to build my next layer. …

Transcript So, today I’m going to show you how to decorate a cake with fresh fruit. I’m using a mango, kiwi, blackberries and strawberries. But you can use any type of fruit that you like as long as it fits in the parameters of a cake topper. So, anything nice and, kind of juicy and …

Transcript So I’m going to take my chocolate that’s already tempered and that’s just cooled down, and I’m going to put a little bit of it right onto my acetate sheet, my transfer sheet, and just take a small offset spatula and just spread it. You’re looking for a very thin layer, not too thin …

Transcript Hi. I’m Katie, and today I’m going to show you how to make white chocolate decorations for cupcakes. So I’m going to show you a few different options. Here I have cupcakes that are already prepared, either with a little bit of butter cream, or I have fondant. Whatever you like is fine, but …

Transcript So today I have some really beautiful dark chocolate and I’m going to show you how to make cake decorations with chocolate. So I’ve tempered mine. What I did was just set chocolate chips over a boiler or you could do this in the microwave and just melt it down a bit of a …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie and today I’m going to show you how to put a layer of fondant over your cupcakes. So I’m starting with a few different colors of fondant, and you can find those in specialty stores, or you can order them online which is always a good way to do it. But …

Transcript And all I’m going to do is, I’ve got my cake on my turntable. I have my rolling pin. And the best way is just to start at the edge and roll towards you, and if you find there are any big, kind of clumps of dry stuff on the bottom, just brush them …

Transcript Today I’m going to show you how to use butter cream to create flowers on top of your cupcakes. So you can see I have my cupcakes baked and they have a nice beautiful round top to them. That’s going to be the perfect base for our flowers. And I have some beautiful colors …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie, and today I’m going to show you some simple icing techniques for cupcakes. I have a few types of frosting here. I have just a white butter cream, a yellow butter cream, and a purple butter cream. You can use any type you like whether it’s chocolate, store bought, homemade or …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie. And today I’m going to show you how to make black frosting out of chocolate. So all I have here is chocolate frosting, chocolate butter cream, that I’ve already made. The way I do that either is with melted chocolate or cocoa powder, depending on your recipe that you love. But …

Transcript And there are a few different basic techniques for piping. You can either start with a very French thing we do in my culinary school would be rosettes. So a very simple things is just to kind of push down and twist around and you have a beautiful little rosette. And you could do …

Transcript Today I’m going to show you some cake border piping tips. I’ve covered my cake in whipped cream. This is just one technique but you can also use buttercream or ganache. Any other type of kind covering for a cake that you like. But I filled my piping back with a little bit of …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie, and I’m going to show you how to fondant a cake. So I’m starting with a nice blob of white fondant, this is just a vanilla fondant, and I’ve kneaded it into submission. You could see it’s nice and soft, very pliable. What you’re looking for is almost like a soft …

Transcript So when you’re decorating the perfect cake there’s some simple tools that you’ll need to do the best job possible. And we’re going to go over those today. It looks like there are a ton of tools here but depending on the cake your making, you may only need one or two. So, let’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie and I’m going to show you how to decorate a cake with cream cheese frosting. And more specifically, I’m using the best cake ever created by man, a carrot cake. Because nothing goes better with cream cheese frosting than carrot cake. So you can see a, two layers. They’re about eight …

Transcript We’ve done our crumb coat. Now we’re going to continue with some cake decorating basics. What I’m going to start with is adding a nice layer of frosting on top of my crumb coat. What that crumb coat did was seal in any kind of miscellaneous crumbs that fell off of the cake and …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie. Today I’m going to show you the best way to ice a cake without crumbs. Really simple process. Here I have two layers of the small layer cake. It’s about a six-inch, but you can do this with any size or shape, and a big bowl of vanilla frosting ready to …

Transcript Now what I have here is a disposable piping bag. You can also use the kind, they sell fabric ones, you can fill them kind of wash them out and use them again. I love this just because I know once I get it dirty I can get rid of it. All I do …

Transcript Hi. I’m Katie, and today I’m going to show you how to ice a cake with whipped cream. I’m using homemade whipped cream. All I did was take, this is called a balloon whisk, mostly because of the shape. It’s very large and round and it gets a lot of air very easily into …

Transcript Hi, I’m Katie, and today I’m going to show you how to decorate a chocolate cake. So here I have two layers of a really beautiful, you can see how rich this chocolate cake is. It’s like heaven in a cake. But I have two, eight or nine inch layers. You can use any …